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mircea_popescu: the precious little they do right, they do by thoughtlessly following tradition.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform often times i look around at this retarded place and i feel i live in the future us.
mircea_popescu: yet magically no one's trying to do anything. somehow.
mircea_popescu: one "really needs" an open instrument like one really needs a trustworthy wife.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> Adlai seems to be using the Erdos method re: mathematics < ?
mircea_popescu: yes the world should work correctly. but whether it does or does not is not your fucking problem.
mircea_popescu: you don't do the right things TO be paid. you do them BECAUSE they're the right things.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can appreciate the part where usg is there to give money to "compensate" the retarded kids that didn't reverse their spectrometer and so ended up with X loss tjhrough any of thbe multiple avenues. and i can appreciate how this makes lazy people manifest thjeir lazy.
mircea_popescu: until they could convince the infant that indeed he is "needed" outside.
mircea_popescu: i imagine poor alf mother was in it for a 3 week labour
mircea_popescu: africa is not something that can be fixed. it's what the word "africa" means.
mircea_popescu: i do nopt care about the problems of tribes in africa.
mircea_popescu: a "sane-indistinct" computer can be had for the task as defined, out of shelf parts.
mircea_popescu: useful life of the tool is 30 years +, so. you get to "break it in" for a few months first.
mircea_popescu: buy spectrometer, 2nd hand. reverse it or pay for it be reversed. run it on sane computer.
mircea_popescu: and don't start with "gimme free stuff in very ellaborate detail of compelx usage".
mircea_popescu: only if the "profession" is saomethiong like "pop star",
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes usg can be rejected just by rejecting it. no, there aren't places where this actually hurts one. yes if one perceives to be hurt it's because one did something stupid in the past he'll have to undo. no this isn't anyone else's problem and no this calls for no sympathy.
mircea_popescu: i don'trecall, but maybe cvut a digit. anyway, hgow is this related ?
mircea_popescu: being run by a bunch of incredibly idiotic idiots, yes. but still.
mircea_popescu: yeah, you're missing the something where gimp is pretty much the only foss success in the actual marketplace.
mircea_popescu: in the ps-gimp case, the only reason is strictly user being an imbecile.
mircea_popescu: which is why i said it's the worst example you could have come up with
mircea_popescu: neither jwz nor mass spectrometers nor anything else has any bearing here.
mircea_popescu: claiming otherwise because you got your sexual advances turned down by a mass spectrometer is nuts.
mircea_popescu: ps turns out, without excewption, in all cases, inferior work, BECAUSE IT SUCKS. it. irretrievably, it ruins work.
mircea_popescu: all that can be done is repeating nonsense reddit style.
mircea_popescu: period and full fucking stop, there isn't even what to discuss here.
mircea_popescu: no bad piece of hardware is required by anyone but idiots.
mircea_popescu: good, saves me from fishing out that file setting up a challenge.
mircea_popescu: not only he spent his money on something thar doesn't work
mircea_popescu: fact that wacom doesn't work with software means you can go fuck it, and fact that vectors are hard means you're still better off with gimp
mircea_popescu: so wait. "wacom doesn't work" is an objection to gimp,
mircea_popescu: it is roughly the equivalent of a "really professional chess player" who plays chess in the dark and moving the pieces with his asshole.
mircea_popescu: "artist" using "drawing tablet" is retarded by definition.
mircea_popescu: it's current;ly the only practical application i (or ANYONE ELSE, given that eulora challenge) have for lisp
mircea_popescu: ie, want to do something that shouldn't be done, or can't figure out how to find someone's pre-made lisp script
mircea_popescu: that's not the suggestion. what's said is that gimp is like lisp : if what you want to do can't be done in gimp iot's because you're either stupid or stupid.
mircea_popescu: a) dude wtf, gimp is the worst example for this, srsly ; b) your own block dump thing actually works for the purpose you discussed, chillax already ; c) there are all sorts of block explorers, yes. it'd be nice if one day someone makes the blockdump one we discussed but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the version is in the block as spit out, what gfx do you need ?
mircea_popescu: but somehow a buncha derps failed to read the memo re bitfinex.